RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 8, 2015 at 3:30 pm
(May 8, 2015 at 9:06 am)Prince Wrote: I began to examine the evidence of what i saw was a truly an Angel, or was just a figment of my own imagination...[I] have disbelieved in God, but he never forsaken me!
I won't come on like the RationalWiki fan club will and dismiss such an experience as {bull with tail raised}. Perhaps things like this can come from a source we call God. Yet they remain individual nonetheless. The longer I've gone on, the less convinced I am that religion can accurately portray the mind of God or the relationship between God and human beings in a created universe. Religion at large chose not to respond to the challenge of atheism in a meaningful way, leaving us the impression that it can't do so. Which is why you see the victory dance of Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins, and why the gifts religion could offer to humankind go unused.
That's all neither here nor there to me, as I believe relationships with the divine are meant to be enjoyed in private or with fellowships, rather than to slam into our planet as a set of do-or-die rules. The disciplinarians took the gentle discipline out of God; the authoritarians squandered away his legitimacy.
(May 8, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Prince Wrote:(May 8, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You've given us zero information that we can verify, yet you're asking for verification...
...Its impossible to prove...other than the spirit pulled my leg.
The word may be "validation." As what a social worker does with a client. The "Trickster" of course is a favorite among Ute storytellers in North America. You gotta watch for him, he's always pulling someone's leg.

(May 8, 2015 at 2:49 pm)robvalue Wrote: Even you cannot verify the spirit pulled your leg, you are relying on your memory of the event. Memory is notoriously unreliable.
Especially mine. Now I know why they have that "medication minder," the little pillbox with 7 lids marked Sun, Mon, Tue, ...
